Performing Near Zero Downtime Maintenance on Primary Tier

To reduce the downtime of an SAP HANA system you perform a near zero Downtime maintenance operation on a primary tier with at least one replication tier available.

Prerequisites

You have the authorization to perform the operation.

For more information, see Standard Permissions.
You have assigned the roles and groups required to perform the operation.

For more information, see Standard Roles and Groups.
You have set up and configured system replication.

For more information, see Setting Up System Replication.
The secondary system is independently up and running.
You know the operation modes that you can use.

Note If you want to use operation mode logreplay or logreplay_read access, ensure that your log retention settings allow an optimized data transport.

For more information, see System Replication Operation Modes.

Procedure

Choose Operations.
Choose Systems from the tabs.
From the Operations dropdown, choose SAP HANA Processes Near Zero Downtime Maintenance on Primary Tier.

All steps included in the process are displayed in a graphical form.

Note To view more details or to change parameters and settings such as the log and operation mode for an individual step, select a process step.
Choose Execute.